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Massive queues at ucc’s harry potter ‘sorting hat’ event

Massive numbers turned out in UCC for the Harry Potter Society’s (HPS) Sorting Hat Ceremony – the first of its kind in any Irish college.

A whole generation grew up reading JK Rowling’s seven-book masterclass, while also tuning into the eight Warner Bros movies, and it seems all of these people are now studying at third-level education.

The ceremony, which in the case of the Harry Potter series, took place every year for first years entering Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry – is now becoming a society tradition at UCC (one far less vulgar than David Cameron’s escapades at Oxford University).

HPS co-founder Kelly Coyle told the Ryan Tubridy Show that the queues to be ‘sorted’ went ‘all the way from the Aula Maxima in the university’s North Wing, out through the hall, out the doors up to the library and then all the way back across the campus again’.